TimFlow | Wood Tracking System

TimFlow | Wood Tracking System

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Timflow, the wood traceability monitoring system developed by HS Timber Group and implemented for all timber factories in Romania in April 2017

Thanks to TimFlow it is possible to check if the exploited wood is legal, if the supplier companies meet the requirements of the company's Due Dilligence system; Whether or not the wood comes from buffer zones of national parks or from other areas where intervention is not allowed. The most important quality of the Timflow system is the unprecedented level of transparency. All GPS data collected is publicly available on the portal also in English, which allows local and international stakeholders to check log shipments. Users can check via Timflow:

  • all transports in the country from the last 12 months which have reached the gates of HS Timber Productions’ sawmills in Romania;
  • information on transport documents;
  • photos of the cargo;
  • truck routes;
  • in addition, users can request copies of the transport documents.

In addition, users can request copies of the transport documents.With the help of Timflow, HS Timber Group ensures that all shipments are legal, meet the requirements of the Due Diligence system and that the loaded timber does not come from buffer zones of national parks. Timflow is an important part of HS Timber Group's Due Diligence system, which strongly supports the group's efforts to reduce the risk of non-compliant timber in the supply chain. 

The application started in April 2017, the number of registered users grew 60% in the first two months following the update, and the number of transports checked on the platform surpassed the 3,000 mark – a growth of 75%. In 2017 over the first six months in operation, Timflow has recorded real-life data from all the trucks delivering logs to the first company implementing the traceability system. This includes the precise routes of the transports, a reference to the documents of origin and photos of the cargo. For each of the 16,000 transports (as of October 2017) a unique dataset is stored securely on the Timflow servers.

Type of wood
Stemwood
Origin of wood
Forest
Mobilization Potential
high
Kind of wood concerned
logwood
Sustainability Potential
high
Ease of implementation
easy
Economic impact
significant
Job effect
moderate
Income effect
moderate
Specific knowledge needed
Digital Monitoring
Exploitation potential

high

Key prerequisites

digital system

Domain
Harvesting, infrastructure, logistics
Keywords
traceability
Challenge addressed
5.- Enhance economic and environmental performance of forest supply chains
Type of solution
Traceability tools
Digital solution
Yes
Innovation
Yes
Country of origin
Romania
Scale of application
National
Start and end year
2007 -
Contact data
Owner or author
HS Timber Group
Reporter
KO-FA Association
Rezső KÁDÁR
References and Resources
Resources
www.timflow.com
Project under which this factsheet has been created
Rosewood 4.0